Category: Season: Summer
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An Inspired Ornamental Vegetable Garden at Secret Garden Growers Nursery in Canby, OR
Like all good things I create, there’s always a complicated backstory. I joke about a recessive Sicilian need for baroque design in everything—but there’s a reason for that. It’s a need to hide the emotion and calculation behind the many ornate details. It’s about creating an unfolding drama—with so much love at its center. And…
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That Time I Entered a Garden Design Contest
“I of course should never have really entered, but I’m glad I did. I definitely won’t do it again. The results simply felt too much like an industry contest for a professional industry magazine. I am not their audience, but you’d hope that I would be. It felt far too lofty to me…”
Ann Loves Plants 